Sharp County record., 1887-04-07

| thrOats and command peace anu dlSoand
armies and harness for the ploW the war
horses now bring hitched to ammunition
wagons or saddlel for cavalry charge
| That time must come, or through the Ia
! creased facility for shooting men and )l0W-
| ing up cities and Whelmiag hosts 70
| instant death, so that we can kill rast
ment easier than we could once
kill a company, and kill oIl9ade
easier than we could once kill regiment,
| the patent offices of the world more busy
| than ever in recognizing the enginery OF
destruction, the human race Will after
awhile 90 fighting with one arm, and hob
bling with one foot, and stumbling along
with one eye, and some irgenious inventor,
| inspired of the archangel of all mischief,
will contrive machine that will bore
| hole to the earth's CENTER and some deS-
perate nation will throw into that hole
| enough dynamite to blow this hulk OF a
planet into fragments, dropping like me-
teOric stones on surrounding stellar haol-
| tationS.
But this shall not be- for whatever else !
let 90 | hang on to my Bible, which tells
me that the blacksmith's shop shall yet
come to its grandest use, when the warrior
and the husbandman shall enter 1t slde oy
side, and the soldier shall throw into It's
bank of tGes his sword, and the larmer
| shall pick it up ploWshare, ana tie
straightest spear shall be bent into a crook
at each end and then cut in two, and What
was one spear shall be two pruning forks
Down with Moloch and up with Christ!
Let no more war horses eat out OF the
manger where Jesus was born.
Peacel Forever roll off the sky the black
pillars of smoke from the Marengos and
! Salamancas and Borodinos and Sedans ana
| Gettysburgs of earth And right after
them roll into the heavens the peaceful
vapor5 of the chimneyS of farm houses,
and asylums, and churches and capitals Of
! Christian nations, and as the sunlight
strikes through these vapors they Will
write in letters Of jet and gold all over the
sky from horizon to zenith: GLORY to GOD
| in the highest, and on earth peace, good Will
toward menp' Then let all the men-of-War
fire broadside and all the forts thunder
forth a resounding volley, and the earth be
girled with the cannonade over the fnal
| victory of the truth.
For ffty-nine centuries the devil had 1t
| his own way among the nations. Neaf'y
| all the missionary movements nave beeh
| started within the century and see WhaI
one century has done to recover the world
from fifty-nine centuries Of devastation.
What great reyivalsl What mighty
churches! What saved millions! what
advancing civilization In all the United
| States, Great Britain, France, Ireland
Germany, Italy, full freedom to worship
| God according to conscience. Along inc
coasts of China, Japan and Africa the pat
teries are planted which are TO take all
these empires for God and civilization.
From the runs of Babylon and Assyrla
and Nneyeh and the valleys OF the MIC
combinations have been eXhume proving
| to all fair-minded men that the Bible IS the
truest book ever written. The mytholO-
gles of Egypt were found to have embodied
| in them the knowledge Of mans expulsion
! from Paradise, and the sacrifice of a great
emancipator Moses account of the crc-s-
ton, corroborated by the hammer OF geolo-
| gists: the oldest profane writers Ike
| Hiromus, Helanicus AMI Berosus confirm
inc the Bible account Of ancient longe lty;
Tacitus and Pliny confirming the Bible ac-
counts of destroyed Sodom ana Gomorrah;
Tacitus and Porphyry telling the same
story of Christ as Matthew and Luke told;
Macrobius telling Of the massacre OF chill
dren in Bethlehem, and Phlegon sketchlng
the darkness at the crucitiXion.
1t is demonstrated to all honest men thai
| it is not so certain that William Cullen
Bryant wrote Thanatop5is or LongielioW
wrote Hiawatha as that God by the hand
of prophet and apostle wrote the Bible. All
| the wise men in science and law and med
icine and literature and merchandise are
gradually coming to believe in Christianity,
and soon there will be no. people who dis
believe in it. except those conspicuous
for lack of brain or men with two families,
who do not like the Bible because it re-
Dukes their swinish propensites.
The time is fastening when there will be
no infdels left except hbortlnes and mar
lots and murderers. Millions OF Christians
where once there were thousands, and
thousands where once there were hun
dreds. What q bright evening this, the
evening of the nineteenth century, ana
l the twentieth century, which Will dawn IN
thirteen years from now, will, in my opin-
ion, bring universal victory for Christ and
the church, that now is marching on with
step double quick or, if you prefer the
figure Of the text, is being swept on in the
mighty gales of blessing, imposing and
grand and majestic and swift, like pillars
Of smoke.
Oh. come into the church through Christ,
the door the door more glorious than that
of the Temple Of Hercules, which had two
pillars, aud one was gold and the other
emerald! Come in to-day! Come in and
be one of the eternal victors The world
you leave behind is poor world, and 1t
will burn and pass off like pillars OF smoke
| Whether the Anal conilagration will start
in the coal mines OF Pennsylvania, which,
in some places, have for many years been
burning and eating into the heart of the
mountains; or whether it shall begin near
the California geysers, or whether from
out of the furnaces of CotopaXi and Vesu'
vius and Stromboli, it shall burst forth
upon the astonished nations.
Imake no prophecy, but all gelogists tell
US that we stand on the lid of world the
heart of which is a raging, roaring, awful
flame, and some day God will let the red
monsters out Of ther Imprisonment OF cent
uries, and New York on fire in 1895 and
Charleston on fire in 1865, and Chicago on
fire in 1871, AMI Boston on fire in 1S7! were
only like one spark from q black5mth'S
forge as compared with that last universal
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